Burdastyle.com to Undergo a Revamp on October 21

In the latest fallout from F+W Media’s bankruptcy, Burdasytle.com has announced that the website will be undergoing a complete overhaul on October 21, 2019. Users who have purchased patterns have just a few days to download them before they will become permanently inaccessible. The notice was posted on the Burdastyle website on October 14.

Many Burdastyle customers balked at the short notice given to download their patterns. “Now I will have to download everything against the clock. This will make me think twice before buying anything digital again from Burdastyle,” wrote one.

Others expressed excitement at the prospect a revamped Burdastyle.com, noting that the website’s user interface lagged far behind the Burda Style sites in Europe and Russia. “I hope with the new site that there will be less spam in the forums,” wrote one commenter. Another added, “This is not a very user friendly website. It is outdated and clunky. Despite my irritation at having to download all the patterns manually onto my computer, my hope is that this will end up being a good change and that the new website will be much more user friendly (especially pattern searching and purchasing).”

6 Comments

Meaghan Renner
on November 4, 2019 at 7:38 am

Hello Abby, thank you for this article. How did you receive a notification for this change? Unfortunately I did not receive any notice (not even an email in my spam folder), even though I have been a customer for over 10 years. I now have lost all of my patterns. It also seems that all the community projects have now been removed from the site as well. What a waste! Years of collaboration lost. I complained to BurdaStyle but it seems unlikely I will get a response. Anyways as you can tell I’m quite frustrated, a shame I did not see your article earlier.

I’m so sorry to hear that, Meaghan. I saw it when someone told me about it. Many commenters said they, too, didn’t receive any notification, although others said they received an email. I was motivated to write this post in the hopes of spreading the word before it was too late.

I did not receive a notification because I didn’t have an email linked to my account. I’ve just signed on to download a dress pattern I had purchased only to find all of my purchases are now gone. I suppose it’s legal that they did this but it certainly is terrible customer service. I won’t be purchasing patterns from Burda in the future. I’ll give my business to the independent designers who can be counted on to support their products.

I too don’t recall ever receiving an email, in fact, I just checked and I never did! What short notice! I just “logged in” to look at my patterns and…gone! What terrible customer service! I am very annoyed.

I didn’t receive any notification, none at all! I am so angry! ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ It’s too late now, all my stuff is GONE FOR ETERNITY! I’ve wasted my time and money on the site. I totally supported and promoted it through word of mouth to all my friends and family members who asked about it. Now I regretted recommending Burdastyle. It’s time to start extremely NEGATIVE feedback to everyone who asked. Never again will I ever purchase from Burdastyle or sites associated with it…NEVER!

While I have never purchased any of Burdas pdf patterns, I did keep pictures of the patterns I intended to purchase. It feels like the entire NEW website has completely changed the format and names of the styles to just generic stuff. When I emailed them about the patterns I could not find, they simply said they would be eliminating any patterns from before 2011. Its a shame because they had some of the moat unique and sophisticated styles on their website. Poorly done.